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Story: The case against switching to a Mac

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Transport mail from Windows to Mac

If there are any would be Mac users reading this I would not be put off my switching mail platforms

When I switched machines and had a large .pst file to get across I used Little Machines as a program to help, It was free then, and might still be but the switch export, import facility was painless and worked first time.

MS products on a Mac are not going to be developed to the same state as MS machines and O/S so you need to consider how much you really love Outlook etc but I one aspect I do love about the O/S on the Mac is that you can just open email or calendar without opening up all the functionality that comes with it in MS O/S.

Since switching 18 months ago and moving to the .mac or now me.com account every synchronizes with the online account, which is just great for me.
On the road the Macbook provides all I need, when I get home I switch on the imac, make a coffee and all my mail and calendar correspondence is there on the home machine - no intervention needed. And in between the two there is always the iphone to pick up email on the run!

You will either love it or hate it, the beauty is that the Mac will run Windows in VM mode should you really need it and I do because most of my corporate clients still use MS.

Only you can decide at the end of the day, for me there is no looking back.

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